Russian airframer Irkut has delivered the second SSJ-New aircraft intended for strength testing, transferring it from its Komsomolsk production centre to Novosibirsk. Structural certification tests ...

After an intensive eight-week nose-to-tail rework to improve the structural efficiency of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin expects the preliminary design review (PDR) to be closed out on ...

The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

"Accounts of early encounters with problems of static aeroelasticity, flutter and dynamic loads in the system design of airplanes, missiles, space vehicles, and long-span bridges by the engineers who ...